THE VIDEO SHELF · creator economy
So...TikTok Sucks
Hank Green, a TikTok creator with millions of followers, explains why he thinks TikTok underpays creators. He compares its fixed-pot creator fund with YouTube's revenue sharing.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in threads on creator economics as a clear explanation of how TikTok payouts shrink per creator as the platform grows.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Hank Green
- Topic
- creator economy
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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[VIDEO] Worth the full watch on video media money. But tldw; TikTok splits a pot of money over the views each video gets. The pot doesn't grow with the revenue they make or total views, so it's pretty exploitative.
athrowaway3z on Hacker News · 2022-03
In TikTok is scary good. It's digital crackTiktok will definitely be replaced by a similar app if they don't start paying out to their content creators in a similar way that Youtube (still awful, but better) does. Hank Green has a great video[0] on the difference since he is on both platforms, …
status200 on Hacker News · 2022-07
In The unlikely odds of making it big on TikTok
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